End Child Marriage
Fourteen-year-old
child bride Lalita Saini in Jaipur, India. Forced early marriage of
young girls can cause lifelong problems, especially due to early
childbearing. Teenage mothers are more likely to die in childbirth. They
often find it difficult to access contraception or other reproductive
health services and so unsafe abortions are a major danger.
Early childbearing is linked to obstetric fistula, while adolescent mothers have children with low birth weight, inadequate nutrition and anemia. And they are more likely to develop cervical cancer later in life. In some countries marriage to older men makes girls more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because the older the man the more sexual partners he will have had and the less likely he will have practiced safe sex. (Source: Reuters)
Early childbearing is linked to obstetric fistula, while adolescent mothers have children with low birth weight, inadequate nutrition and anemia. And they are more likely to develop cervical cancer later in life. In some countries marriage to older men makes girls more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because the older the man the more sexual partners he will have had and the less likely he will have practiced safe sex. (Source: Reuters)
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